Port Chester/Rye NAACP to hold ‘Effie Gordon Tea’

The Port Chester/Rye branch of the NAACP is holding its fourth annual Effie Gordon Tea on Saturday in memory of its first female president, a Rye resident who helped found the Carver Center in Port Chester.

Speaking this year will be Kendra Charisse Porter (pictured), a stylist whose Honor You personal shopping agency specializes in full-figured women. She is a recent honoree of the Women’s Enterprise Development Center.

Port Chester Sarah Dapaah, a star of this year’s “Hairspray” musical, is performing.

Leah Rae is a staff writer, blogger and photographer for The Journal News and LoHud.com, focusing on Port Chester and Rye. She has written about the growth of Westchester's immigrant population since joining the paper in 1994, and has reported from Ecuador and Guatemala on the hometowns of local immigrant communities.